Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

Regular Expression
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gm

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$re = '/(?s)<table.*?<\/table>/m'; $str = '<table style="width: 900px; height: 156px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td><span style="color: #37454d;"><strong>Resort Name:</strong></span></td> <td style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #37454d;">explora Valle Sagrado, Peru</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: #37454d;"><strong>Country Name:</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: #37454d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font- variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text- align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Peru</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: #37454d;"><strong>Resort Address:</strong></span> </td> <td> <div class="is-hidden-mobile blEntry address ui_link " data-popover="small" data-position="below" data-element=".content" data- options="closeOnMouseAway" data-maxwidth="300" data-mapfilters=""> <span>Unnamed Rd Urquillos, Peru</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: #37454d;"><strong>Website:</strong></span></td> <td> <p><span style="color: #37454d;">https://www.explora.com/hotels-and- travesias/sacred-valley-peru/</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: #37454d;"><strong>Phone:</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: #37454d;">+56 2 2395 2580</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><iframe style="border:0" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed? pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d15528.573314149919!2d-72.0483157!3d- 13.341359!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x1a052e519e34e771! 2sExplora+Valle+Sagrado!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sjp!4v1531275200849" height="450" width="600"></iframe></p>'; preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($matches);

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php